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Historic Summit Avenue Neighborhood (Saturday Morning)

Swann Middle School 811 Cypress Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

With streets branded using urbane names such as “Park Avenue” and “Fifth Avenue”, the Summit Avenue neighborhood was soon lined with homes occupied by engineers and mechanics employed by the mills. Later houses were designed in styles such as Craftsman Bungalows and Rectinlinear Foursquares. The majority of the neighborhood maintained its industrial affiliation throughout the twentieth-century until its ample and affordable residences were re-discovered by artists and educators in the 1980s. Since then, the neighborhood has seen a great deal of reinvestment as a vibrant urban neighborhood.

College Park Tour (Saturday Morning)

Ebenezer Lutheran Church 319 South Tremont Drive, Greensboro, NC, United States

This is a new tour currently under research and development!

Historic Summit Avenue Neighborhood (Dunleath) Evening Walking Tours

Swann 811 Cypress Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Traces of nineteenth-century history linger on the edges of the Summit Avenue neighborhood, but the greatest architectural legacy dates from the early twentieth-century. In 1898, industrialist siblings Ceasar and Moses Cone constructed a “magnificent boulevard” to ease transportation between their mills and the city center. Named “Summit Avenue” for its destination to the crossroads community…

Westerwood Walking Tour (Saturday Morning)

Double Oaks 204 North Mendenhall Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Beginning with the magnificent neoclassical Double Oaks mansion on Mendenhall Street, this tour will weave the history of Westerwood from the late nineteenth century to the present. Built on a hill just a west of Greensboro’s village center, the area was first developed in the 1890s as the home of B. H. Merrimon. His home, known as The…

Fisher Park Walking Tour – Tour Filled

(Old) Temple Emanuel 713 North Greene Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Fisher Park was the first Greensboro suburb planned and developed around a park and one of the earliest park suburbs in North Carolina. British Army Captain Basil J. Fisher re-imaged a swamp and garbage dump into Greensboro’s most fashionable Gilded Era address in 1901 when he donated the lowlands for the city’s first park that…

$5.00

Dunleath (Summit Avenue) Walking Tour – Tour Filled

Swann Middle School 811 Cypress Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Traces of nineteenth-century history linger on the edges of the Summit Avenue neighborhood (recently renamed Dunleath), but the greatest architectural legacy dates from the early twentieth-century. In 1898, industrialist siblings Ceasar and Moses Cone constructed a “magnificent boulevard” to ease transportation between their cotton and denim mills and the city center. Named “Summit Avenue” for…

$5.00

Guilford at 250: Civil Rights Era Touchstones

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Greensboro’s Civil Rights history is unparalleled in North Carolina. With keystone institutions such as NCA&T, Bennett College, and Dudley High School, Greensboro has (at times) been a national leader in Civil Rights. According to historian William H. Chafe, “In some ways Greensboro simply exemplified national trends; in others, it helped to create them, particularly with…

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Walking Wednesdays Tour of Westerwood

Double Oaks 204 North Mendenhall Street, Greensboro, NC, United States

Beginning with the magnificent neoclassical Double Oaks Bed & Breakfast at 204 North Mendenhall Street, this tour will weave the history of Westerwood from the late nineteenth century to the present. Built on a hill just west of Greensboro’s village center, the area was first developed in the 1890s as the home of B. H.…